ok lets all shit our pants to something new: post 2005 horror film thread

I think Edgar Wright is a big old bag of wind and I've decided, after Baby Driver that enough is enough, but that does look quite good...

I watched Insidious, which I'd managed to miss until now. I thoroughly enjoyed the first 45 minutes and thought, well, this has aged rather well, but then the frog brothers turned up and it went to shit. Oh well.

Apologies for the random usage of commas. In all my posts. I'm so tired.

Two of the best actors working today, too. Not sure if even Wright could mess that up.

It'll be Edgar does Giallo and he will have done literally hundreds of hours of research and everything will be in the right place and it will annoy me.

Why?

This one looks fun!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kpj1VOJWf98

"based on the video game"

aaaaand I'm out.

I was wondering about the Ubisoft logo.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YC1DQsaKdgw

Trailer gives away any "is / isn't he?" mystery, but the movie has some neat additions to the genre with some daylight action and a non-standard werewolf look.

Cross-posting with the "last movies you saw" thread:

Signed up for HBO Max and finally watched The Conjuring, which I've been meaning to check out for a while. James Wan speaks the language of horror cinema better than almost anybody around right now; I expected lol70s cheese, but this thing is no-fucking-around scary. If you're in the mood for old-school horror (I strongly suspect more of the effects were practical than digital) with really good performances all around, especially Lili Taylor, it's kind of a must-see. The most genuinely frightening horror movie I've seen since Prince of Darkness.

I love the Conjuring - it's taken everything that worked from lots of haunted house movies and stuck them together.

Watched The Unholy (which was fine) and The Corruption of Divine Providence; which was nearly as good as it's title! I understand complaints that it wsa too crowded/busy, and I'd love a bit more Tarr to it, but what it did it did well.

Finally got around to The Dead Don't Die and In Fabric. The former was exactly what I expected from a Jarmusch zombie film, and enjoyable as such. In Fabric I kinda loved even though it was ridiculous. So many great images and scenes.

in fabric is so so so good. i'm a strickland stan at this point

Yeah I dug Berberian Sound Studio too. I still need to see Duke of Burgundy (which I guess doesn't qualify for this thread).

it doesn't but it's still creepy and kinda scary at points

also his best imo but i love lesbians

Duke could probably pass as psychological horror.

I really disliked The Conjuring, goofy melodrama, it treats mediums with an annoying reverence and it doesn't help that it has two real life frauds as heroes

Duke could probably pass as psychological horror.

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it could also pass as a comedy, movie really has everything

It is pretty funny, tbh.

The Conjuring ... iirc it relied sooooo much on loud scares, not just jump scares but *loud* jump scares, which I think are an extra kind of cheating.

The Conjuring 2 >>>>>>>>>>> The Conjuring

I don't care about the real life frauds being the 'heroes', I just pretend the film takes place in a world where they're real and actually saw what they claimed to.

the first Conjuring was just mediocre Catholic-guilt horror. second one was better just by going bigger and actually killing people.

Sinister was better than both

I keep meaning to watch Sinister. The crappier the movie around him seems to be, the better Ethan Hawke's performance turns out to be, IME.

I didn't know the characters were real people until a couple of years after I saw it, but I still really disliked it.

I knew cos basically they're the Amityville Horror looney toonie investigators.

Iirc, Sinister may be the only of these sorts of movies to address the "why don't they just leave!?" conundrum.

Great trailer, like Cronenberg's "Crash" meets ... I dunno no. Noe?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYm2RETn_oQ

^^^ from the director of raw btw

the images are astonishing, and julia ducournau doing something that's at least partially industrial horror.... it's already got my ticket

hmmm

Looks good thanks

Superdeep got terrible reviews but I quite enjoyed it. It’s not particularly innovative but it’s pretty fun.

Good soundtrack too.

Thelma was the first film I've seen by J. Trier and it's certainly worth a watch but I found the pacing somnambulant and its need to overexplain everything tedious. Great acting and a fun take on Firestarter with a "kill the patriarchy vibe".

I just watched Host and really enjoyed it. Loved the formal invention, which managed to deal with the 'just turn the fucking thing off!' conundrum quite neatly, and I totally fell for the cast and was invested in them, which is rare for a horror film. I was properly scared in a few places - to the point where I actually roared at one point and one of my kids came down to see if I was alright!

I've signed up for a month of Shudder as well, so will be enshittening myself for most of July and August.

you'll find plenty of shudder recs if you go back thru this thread

Nice one cheers. I'll have a dig around.

Watched The Hunt last night on HBO Max. I knew it would be dumb as shit, but it was actually OK, a few suuuuuper on-the-nose/this-film-was-made-in-2019 lines of dialogue aside. It's a Hostel/The Most Dangerous Game knockoff with "political" overtones, some decent fight scenes (it's often more action movie in the Scott Adkins/old-school Van Damme vein than horror, exactly), and (digital) gore. The biggest surprises come from who turns out to only have been hired for a single day of shooting, if you know what I mean.

I actually enjoyed "Werewolves Within," which features a lot of familiar funny faces in the cast, even if it's more fitfully amusing. If you liked "Ready or Not" (I did) you'd probably like this, too. Got some of its own on-the-nose political jokes, but I thought they mostly worked.

I liked the hunt. some amusing elements and Betty Gilpin rules

Following some of the Shudder recommendations, I watched Beyond the Walls over the last 3 nights and loved it. I'm a sucker for a 'house as symbol of the unconscious' and I loved how the house was rendered. It did lose its way a little in the final act but held its nerve and mercifully held off from 'chuck everything at the screen' rising climax approach. Great stuff.

Empty Man is on Disneyplus now

In the uK, at least

Blood Born is pretty good, though it kind of comes apart a bit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4unxjlKCpw

Shudder's new one, Son, is pretty decent too, if you prefer you trauma post-partum instead.

gah definitive no thanks!! that image is even a bit much for me. i don't like grisly pregnancy horror tbh unless it is The Brood. It's hard enough having these reproductive organs, I don't need any more horror :)

Only just post-2006 but saw Lake Mungo this afternoon. Very affecting, expertly constructed and beautifully paced with the revelations slowly gathering momentum. It made me think of House of Leaves (most things do) but most obviously Twin Peaks (a bit on the nose to call the family the Palmers? Perhaps). It seems insane that the director has essentially disappeared but fair play: create something perfect and take your leave.

In The Earth is a nice addition to the psychedelic horror genre.

So it looks like a couple horrifically anthropomorphized animal films on their way?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hleuhBW_lc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnEwJKVWjFM

I'm assuming the pig in Pig is just a pig, though.